Which is the fastest lane in traffic

[FourKing Hell]

Heh.. come to Europe. You'll always know for sure which lane is fastest, because it's illegal to pass someone on the right side here

[durron597]

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Smiley explained the whole thing to me as a Nash equilibrium/game theory matter and that you should pick a lane and stick with it, because if everybody's doing it, nobody's getting ahead or something. I dunno...

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This is wrong, because the results of each repetition of the game are not independant (people decide whether to switch lanes again based on what's happening in their lane which is caused by other people's games etc. etc.)

[dtbog]

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When you're in a spot where two lanes merge into one, stay in the lane that's going away for as long as possible til it merges - if you're in the one that doesn't merge away, you're in slowsville - RB

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This is true -- but ironically, the cause of the "slowsville" problem is because people like you don't change lanes when they see a sign for a lane merge.

If everyone did that, then there wouldn't be a bottleneck at the exact point where the left lane is closed... instead, people would have gradually merged into the middle lane already, and traffic would move much faster.

*sigh*

I'm a pretty aggressive/[censored] driver in general, but I try not to do things that slow down traffic. This is one of those things.

[Your Mom]

In Omaha, on I-80, the left lane is the fastest and it isn't even close.

[MoreWineII]

Here in pwntown, we have the ever-awesome carpool lane on I-5 north between 3-6 PM. I'd say an average of two people use it per day. One of them is me, by myself in my car. Because frankly I'm [censored] tired of traffic and if I have to pay a ticket once or twice per year, so be it. But I never will because it's only monitored like once per month and the cops sit in the exact same spot every single time - right at the end when the lane goes back to normal.

I've been doing this for about five months now with not even a close call. [censored] 'em.

[slamdunkpro]

The one you're not in [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]